HUNTER'S COMMANDER, OTHER REMANDED FOR BURNING A WOMAN TO DEATH

 The Chief Magistrate Court I in Yola, Adamawa state has remanded the Commander of Local Hunters, Nuhu Inuwa and 1 other over allegations of criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide.  

Chief Magistrate Muhammed Buba, ordered the remand of Inuwa and Samaila Luka of Wuro Barka community in Mubi North Local Government Area, over the allegations.

The defendants were remanded on their arraignment over the allegations which according to the prosecution contravened sections 60 and 191 of the penal code law.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Inspector Zakka Musa, informed the court that the defendants had instigated miscreants who beat Mrs Rejoice Zira, of the same address and subsequently burnt her to ashes.

The prosecutor, alleged in the First Information Report that the miscreants murdered the 50 years old woman on the orders of the defendants who had accused the woman of witchraft.

The defendants were said to have accused the deceased of witchraft, and that she was behind the death of Dimas Dink, who died as a result of accident along Yola-Mubi road.

NEWS PLATFORM gathered that Dimas died in the fatal accident on the 3rd March, 2023, the incident which some people in the community alleged that it was Mrs Rejoice who caused it.

When the news of the death of Dimas broke, the mob who were allegedly instigated by the defendants and several others now at large, stormed the residence of the late, beat her to comma and set her ablaze.

On their arraignment in court, the defendants pleaded not guilty, explaining that they did not instigate anybody to kill the woman.

They narrated that none of them was there at the scene of incident, saying that as neighbours, they only heard shouting of a mob and smoke from the house on that fateful day.

The duo narrated that they were invited at the police station in Mubi over allegations that they must be in the picture of the incident since they reside in the community not that they participated in the act.

Nuhu said that the police had told him that he was invited not because he personally participated in the act, but that he instigated some people, the allegation which according to him is not true.

 

Thereafter, the presiding judge of the court, adjourned the matter to the 17th April, 2023, for the prosecution to transmit case diary to DPP for legal advice.